Karen Lynn Jackson

Background

Jackson, Karen Lynn was born on June 23, 1958 in Fort Dix, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Wayne Latham and Mildred Prudence Jackson.

Education

AS in Pre-Medicine, Bachelor and Bachelor of Science in English and Behavioral Sciences, U. Maine, 1982; postgraduate, U. Rochester, New York, 1985.

Career

Reporter, Portland (Maine) Evening Express, 1974-1978; research assistant, U. Utah Research Institute, Salt Lake City, 1979; research assistant, Ventrex Medical laboratories, Portland, 1979-1980; manager international program, U. Maine, Orono, 1980-1982; laboratory instructor in biology, U. Maine, Fort Kent, 1982; budget specialist Office of the Mayor, City of Salt Lake City, 1983; technical writer, Comtel Engineering Firm, Salt Lake City, 1983; agricultural extension specialist, United States Peace Corps, Benin, West Africa, 1983-1984; resident director, conference coordinator, Rochester Institute Technology, 1985-1987; program analyst, unites states department of Labor, Washington, 1987-1989; information specialist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1989-1991; public affairs specialist, photographer, unites states department Health and Human Superior vena cava syndrome, Rockville, Maryland., since 1991. Media contact National Institute on Deafness/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1989-1990. Writer White Houe and secretarial Correspndence Messages, since 1991.

Achievements

• Karen Lynn Jackson has been listed as a notable information specialist, photographer, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Conglomerate fellow Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Boston and Washington, 1988-1990, Very Special Arts International, Washington, 1989. Coordinator American Red Cross, Presque Isle, Maine, 1985, Combined Federal Campaign/NIDCD/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1989. Volunteer National Association Returned Peace Corps, since 1985.

Member American Medical Writers Association, People-People Committee for Handicapped (board directors since 1988), Friends of the National Zoo, Smithsonian Association, National Geographic Society, National Audubon Society, World Wildlife Fund, Friends of the Kennedy Center, National Wildlife Federation.

Interests

• Avocations: photography, traveling, computers, painting.

Connections

Father:

Wayne Latham Jackson

Mother:

Mildred Prudence Jackson